CHAPTER XIV 

 BUTTER MAKING AND CHEESE MAKING 



Should the dairyman make butter? Whether 

 or not it will be profitable for a farmer to invest 

 in equipment so that he can make butter properly 

 is another question that he alone can answer. 

 The question resolves itself into this: Can he 

 get an increased price for his product sufficient 

 to warrant incurring the additional expenditure 

 of money and labor necessary to produce a 

 marketable product? 



In most sections of this country, especially 

 where the creameries are numerous, dairymen 

 prefer to sell their cream to butter factories, 

 and thus save the labor and expense incident to 

 the manufacture of butter on a small scale. 

 There are some so fortunately situated that they 

 can get a higher price for their cream by sell- 

 ing it for direct consumption, and they do sell it 

 that way. There are others who, for sentimental 

 reasons, prefer to make their own butter, and 

 therefore the extra expense and labor is not 

 looked upon as a serious obstacle. 



Sweet cream butter. In certain sections of 



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